Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

By Bill Gibron

Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose. [12 September 2008]

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

By PopMatters Staff

That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. [22 June 2007]

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

By Bill Gibron

In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring. [2 March 2007]

We All End Up in Diapers: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Jennifer Makowsky

Comparing the book to the film, it’s as if Fitzgerald laid just the foundation, and from that Roth built a multi-storied house. [29 July 2009]

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Luke Z. Fenchel

With a long running time, a chronology that spans almost a century of American history, and a plot that is anticlimactic at best and tedious at worst, this is a curious case, indeed. [15 May 2009]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's an inelegant but provocative means to measure Benjamin and Daisy's ostensibly transcendent connection: as he grows young and she grows old, they share but a single moment when their bodies and visions and hopes can easily coincide. [24 December 2008]

Zodiac

By Emma Simmonds

Bonds are fleetingly forged then broken, comradeship and honour are largely absent and, like the Zodiac himself, everyone emerges as a rather lost and damaged soul. [15 August 2007]

Zodiac (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

David Fincher's excellent new movie winds clues and pursuits into an intriguing, often witty mix of causes and effects. In so doing, it rejiggers the police procedural. [2 March 2007]

Panic Room (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles. [12 September 2002]

Panic Room (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In lieu of plot or character, 'Panic Room' offers the house. [28 March 2002]

Fight Club (1999)

By Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis. [14 October 1999]

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Benjamin Button’ is Brilliant

Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Slumdog’ travel on two distinct paths [16 February 2009]

‘Zodiac’ filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panic [3 March 2007]

David Fincher talks ‘Zodiac’ [2 March 2007]